SUMMARY: cleaning up files in /var/adm

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From: Lucio Chiappetti
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 1995 00:00

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I've asked whether the ever-growing log files in /var/adm can be deleted
or truncated. Common consensus was that deleting the files even if 
recreating them at zero size with touch is NOT the right thing because 
the system may still thinlkthey're open and write into nowhere.

The correct way to get rid of such files is :

    cat /dev/null > file

Thanks to :

"Michael A. Crowley" <mcrowley@mhc.mtholyoke.edu>
Can Baysal <baysalc@boun.edu.tr>
"Marcel A. Bernards" <bernards@ecn.nl>
Herve DEMARTHE <demarthe@alpha.cad.cea.fr>
Tim Cantin <tim@dorothy.wellesley.edu>
case@vax1.tristate.edu

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